"And he said unto them, Go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." - Mark 16:15

And so it was with the pipes.... Satan and Music

Should rock music be for our churches today?

‘Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.’
(Ezekiel 28:13)

Satan and Musical Ability

The above bible verse is referring to Satan (Lucifer before he rebelled)
and when he was created. We learn a few things about Satan here, one of
them being, as highlighted above, that Satan was created with a musical
ability. The word tabret refers to the musical percussion instrument,
the tambourine (from the Hebrew word tofe) and pipes (from the Hebew
word neqeb) from hollowness/bore through. Given the context of the
musical disposition with the tambourine as percussion, it’s quite clear
that ‘pipes’ is quite literally referring to the ability to create
musical notes. Note how as humans we only have one ‘pipe’, that is our
breathing pipe from which we can only create one note at a time. Satan,
before he rebelled, had many pipes, able to create many musical notes at
one time.

Clearly Satan was given an ability in so much as regards to music is
concerned.

The Devil and Rock Music - Rock and
Roll

The original term ‘rock and roll’ or rather ‘rock and rolling’ refers to
the act of sexual intercourse, or more exactly, fornication:

‘..(rock and rolling) to mean "having sexual intercourse".
... Alan Freed first played a collection of rhythm and blues albums in
his show under the name "The Moondog Show". However, upon relocating to
New York he changed the name to "The Rock and Roll Show". He had full
knowledge of the term and it's racy implications...’
(Source:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rock%20and%20roll)

The name, rock music – ‘rock and roll’ has it’s origins in street slang
for carnal acts of the flesh, sexual intercourse, debauchery,
fornication, adultery.

Here is what some famous rock musicans have said about rock music:

‘This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been
doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the
basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.’
– John Bon Jovi

'After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to
look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and
crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.' – Rick James

One doesn’t need to dig in too deeply to see that rock music – rock and
roll has nothing to do with God and Christian living, but, however,
let’s just look a little more, not for long!

Devil Worship

Another common thread within rock music is Satanism – whether it is
imagery, lyrics, rejection of Christianity or being controlled by
devils, but here is some examples

‘(Carlos Santana) tells me more about Metatron. "Metatron is
the architect of physical life. Because of him, we can French-kiss, we
can hug, we can get a hot dog, wiggle our toe." He sees Metatron in his
dreams and meditations. He looks a bit like Santa Claus – "white beard,
and kind of this jolly fellow." Metatron, who has been mentioned in
mystical disciplines through the ages, also appears as the eye inside
the triangle.'

Santana credits Metatron with alerting him to the recent changes in his
life. In the mid-Nineties, he met some people in a spiritual bookstore
near his home, and they invited him to their afternoon meditations in
Santa Cruz. The last time he was there, Metatron, delivered some
important messages. "You will be inside the radio frequency," Metatron
told him, "for the purpose of connecting the molecules with the light."
Carlos Santana understood. He would make a new album and be on the radio
again. And he would connect the molecules with the light: He would
connect an audience with some of the spiritual information he now had.’
– Carlos Santana (Source
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-epic-life-of-carlos-santana-20000316)

Note that this has nothing to do with God, but everything to do with a
demonology. Carlos Santana also talks about how ‘Metatron’ tells him
what music to write.

Further Info

Rock music, rock and roll (fornication as detailed at the start of the
article) has it’s roots in voodoo:

‘The roots of rock are in a West African word for dance —
rak. As Michael Ventura wrote in his important essay on rock music,
“Hear that Long Snake Moan”:

The Voodoo rite of possession by the god became the standard of American
performance in rock’n’roll. Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee
Lewis, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Jim Morrison, Johnny
Rotten, Prince — they let themselves be possessed not by any god they
could name but by the spirit they felt in the music. Their behavior in
this possession was something Western society had never before
tolerated.’

‘Vodou possession is not the hokey demon-possession of
zombie movies; it’s a state of union with the divine achieved through
drumming, dancing and singing. It’s becoming “filled with the Holy
Ghost” in the Pentecostal Christian tradition or attaining yogic bliss
through the practice of kirtan, singing the names of God — Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna.’

‘Voodoo possession’ and ‘rock star possession’ has nothing to do with
God and has everything to do with the devil. Indeed, as well as its
roots in sexual intercourse, fornication, drugs, alcohol, we now move on
to possession, one has to
dwell on the bible verse about how easily people are deceived,
especially when it refers to ‘molecules of light’:

‘And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if
his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works.’ (– 2 Corinthians 11:14-15)

And it is centered on worldly temporary things.

For some reason people –the journalist here and the author of ‘Hear that
long snake moan’ (the title on it's own is undecent), and presumably at
least some of the public reading the article, are under the impression
that the music, the possession taking place has something to do with
God. Quite how someone could add ‘Christianity’ ‘yogic’ ‘Hare Krishna’
among other things in the one package is clearly a sign of at least
ignorance, if not devilish deception, as having something to do with the
God of the bible. Perhaps it is due to;

‘In whom the god of this world (Satan)
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them’ (– 2 Corinthians 4:4)

But it has nothing to do with God. It is of the devil. This is not THE
Spirit, but rather, A spirit,

‘For if he that cometh
preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not
accepted, ye might well bear with him’ (- 2 Corinthians 11:4)

The reality is that rock music, as is always the case with Satan, offers
on the surface ‘freedom’, ‘liberation’ a break from ‘stuffiness’, but
what it really does is lead people to promiscuity, drunkenness,
rebellion, drugs, recklessness, if anything from the suggestive lyrics,
to a one off night out where one does something they regret, to
encouraging drink and drug abuse, to not care about oneself, to a life
of increasing sin and self abuse, to loneliness, to simplistic thoughts
about life. If that is not enough, referring to the bible in reference
to rock stars and this rock and roll ‘allure’ of freedom:

“While they
promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of
the same is he brought in bondage.” - Peter 2:19

What is known as CCM (Contemporary Christian Music), as correctly
detailed in the above quote by journalist Patrick Hess, follows much the
same pattern as above in the article, but instead of the sensual
suggestive lyrics and so forth, it offers sensual, vague, open worship
type music, for instance, here are the lyrics to a popular, recent CCM
song, the title being, ‘I Have This Hope’,

‘As I walk this great unknown
Questions come and questions go
Was there purpose for the pain?
Did I cry these tears in vain?
I don't want to live in fear
I want to trust that You are near
Trust Your grace can be seen
In both triumph and tragedy
I have this hope
In the depth of my soul
In the flood or the fire
You're with me and You won't let go’

Indeed, given the clear ambiguity of the lyrics alone, ie one could
easily refer those lyrics to a boyfriend/girlfiend breakup, or indeed to
‘yogic’, ‘kirtan’, ‘Hare Krishna’ or perhaps something else. One would
imagine a Christian to pay close attention to such a thing,

‘And them that worship the host of
heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the
Lord, and that swear by Malcham’ – Zephaniah 1:5,

Where Malcham refers to Moloch, Ba’al, that is, a god associated with
human sacrifice.

That is, people were worshipping Ba’al in the name of God. Now, I am not
saying that’s what CCM is doing, but the vague universal lyrics, and
that the Gospel of the bible is never presented, leads it at least open
to the possibility, it has the name Christian music, but, like the
newspaper article linking ‘vodoo’, ‘Hare Krishna’ etc, it is really
applying to anything other than clear, unambiguous worship of the God of
the bible, there is nothing really ‘Christian’ in the worship, but
rather a substitution for whatever a person may desire.

To Recap

So, as we can see from the bible verse at the top of the page, Satan was
given an ability to do with music, and as demonstrated from the article
written, rock music comes from non-Godly practices – sex, drugs abuse,
carelessness, demon possession. Indeed, the driving beats of wordly
music, voodoo, rock and roll, rock music, come DIRECTLY from Satan’s
aptitude for music, and it’s all done to take us away from behaving in a
Godly way or following or knowing the God of the bible, but it is
becoming friends with the world,

‘Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know
ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.’ – (James
4:4)' 'For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all
churches of the saints.' - 1 Corinthians 14:13

Why are a growing amount churches using this type of music, and
promoting it as necessary for church attendance?

Now, I am not saying A church, or YOUR church should not have ‘modern
music’ or ‘modern instruments’, these choices between you, what you
listen to, or decision made by you or decisions made by a church are
entirely your concern and the members/pastor of a particular church.

What’s clear though, is that at least with these particular styles of
music, eg rock music, electric guitar especially through distortion, CCM
and so forth, that it’s tools used by the devil.

New problem for the church – to attract new members?

Keep in mind also, that these are not ‘new’ problems. For centuries –
thousands of years, such music has been available – pagan music, tribal
music, driving drumbeats, warbling vocals not really saying anything of
meaning. The instruments may have changed, although sometimes not, but
the style and the type of worship it creates has not changed, that is as
old and been around for as long as we can know.

Churches – Christians could have brought this type of music into their
services at any time in the past. But they did not.

'Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to
set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her
mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's
foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and
followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall
lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it'. (-
Matthew 34-39)

Perhaps it's worth
asking

Perhaps it’s worth asking if such music should be in a church/Christian
gathering, which typically takes place for up to an hour perhaps once a
week, when we have the remaining 6 days and 23 hours to be exposed or
choose to be exposed to carnal music.

Maybe it’s best we maintain at least some separation from the world, as
the bible says, and listen and take part in some honest, basic praising
of His name for at least that hour, and to escape from the world and
it’s struggles, if only for a little while
.

So
maybe it's the case

So maybe it’s the case that churches are struggling to find new
attendees not because people do not want to worship, but because they
are no longer following the doctrine of what God has told us to do,
instead they are compromising their beliefs, compromising the word of
God, in order to ‘appeal’ to the world at any cost. Look, people, even
unsaved people, tend not to give credence to those who cannot adhere to
their principles, we see the same thing in those who are supposed to
adhere to something, whether it is a school teacher, a judge, a
politician. Credibility is important, how much more so when it is not
about human jobs but about the word of God!

‘Ye are the salt of the earth: but if
the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is
thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden
under foot of men’ (– Matthew 5:13)

To conclude

I for one do not wish to worship God to the tunes of worldly, devil
inspired music, quite possibly devil worshiping music, nor do I think we
are pleasing God either, but perhaps instead, sadly, entertaining the
devil. Indeed, perhaps it's becoming a sad day when it could be said
that people are having to LEAVE
the church in order to look to be right and grow in the Lord.

‘Take thou away from me the noise of
thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.’ ( – Amos 5:23)